Organic Indoor Gardening
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Organic indoor gardening can be the answer for the person looking to grow plants in either a small way with a few pots, or in a large greenhouse, and all in harmony with the natural approach that eliminates chemicals and pesticides. Organic gardening is growing flowers, edible vegetables, and even landscape plants with natural fertilizers and even some natural techniques to fight garden pests. Natural gardening has become a giant industry as more and more individuals are desirous of fewer chemicals and engineered food products in their food chain. For those persons desiring to pursue indoor organic gardening, there are some ideas to consider, beginning with what kinds of organic gardening supplies should be purchased. Natural gardening begins with several words: manure and sewage sludge. Somehow, those two words and the word "indoor" really don't go together!
Yes, organic gardening supplies, especially fertilizers, are going to often include those two components, plus some other real interesting components such as blood meal, which is dried, powdered blood taken from livestock slaughtering houses. Doesn't that just sound yummy knowing that stuff is going into your favorite asparagus plants? And of course, there is rotting, decaying fish that makes a grand and glorious natural fertilizer. Listen, a person has to love nature to do this, because many experts recommend fish heads as the most desirous of fish emulsifiers, and if memory serves correctly, the gardener must plant the heads with eyes pointed straight up at the sky. You know this is a joke, right? But there is no joke when it comes to organic fertilizers. They really do contain the elements just mentioned because they are all part of the natural cycle of life.
So assume that a beginner wants to begin organic indoor gardening, and for simplicity's sake, will develop an herb garden using only organic gardening supplies. The intrepid beginner has chosen an eclectic assortment of herbs for the garden, including horseradish, catnip for her little furry baby and chamomile. Our beginner also heard an old recording recently and bought parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. The gardener knew that she would have less space to grow than outside, the beginnere also knew that the herbs would have less flavor and there would be smaller yields. On the other hand, the woman delighted in knowing there would be less pest problems, herbs could be grown all year long, and there would be no cause for weeding.
The lady gathered and purchased a number of terra cotta pots that were somewhat larger than the small ones often favored at large discount stores that are used to house one plant out at their entrances. The gardener knew that must be done or eventually the need to repot the plants would be necessary. As part of the organic gardening supplies, the gardener also purchased a fish and kelp liquid fertilizer that promised on the bottle not smell like the inside of the fish that swallowed Jonah. The woman considered buying a bulb specially made for providing the right type of light for organic indoor gardening, but felt that the west facing bedroom window would provide enough sunlight along the sill. Finally, further research provided the beginning horticulturalist with the caution not to purchase herb seeds, but rather already growing plants that were beginning to thrive.
Mrs. Greenthumb headed home as happy as a clam with the newest project in tow. Mr. Greenthumb was not a green thumb at all, but rather a fisherman and a hunter and a lover of TV dinners and fried chicken filled with hormones, and a nineteen seventy one muscle car with four hundred twenty cubic inches that used premium gas for an astounding eleven miles to the gallon. In addition, the man also very much liked chemical on the lawn that were spread by the guys in the great big tank truck. Organically inclined, interested or demanding the man was not, as his wife would sadly find out later. "But if ye forgive not men of their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." (Matthew 6:15)
When Mrs. Greenthumb informed the mister about the latest project, the husband just smiled. The wife had started so many new ventures, including ant farming and raising chinchillas that the man knew this current undertaking of organic indoor gardening would die in about three days. However, when Mrs. Greenthumb opened the shopping bag of organic gardening supplies and the guy smelled the open bottle of fish slime and kelp, the hubby shot out of the big leather seat and bolted for the bathroom to revisit breakfast. It was then that the man knew his little world could not be rocked by this foray into smell sensory agony. It would take time, but the husband figured he would have to sabotage the woman's efforts. Mrs. Greenthumb drove back to the store and bought some dry fertilizer with a base of shellfish that did not have the unctuous odor of the other stuff.
Mrs. Greenthumb had moderate success with the herb growing in the months to come. Some of the plants grew quite large, some passing for a colorful afro substitute, others not so much, but further research informed her that the western sun was too hot in the afternoon and too limited to a few hours each day for her herbs to grow. The budding gardener decided that the southern exposure of the family room was perfect and moved all the pots two days before a month's vacation began with the hunter/gatherer husband. Since the large colorful herb plants were blocking the evening view of the deer feeding on the back forty, the big guy snuck into the house just before departure and put the ten pots in a broom closet. He had his revenge.
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